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79 6 CultureIn the study of religion, material culture refers to the stuff of religion, the bodies, objects, and places of religious life that are animated through practices of sensory engagement, economic exchange, and technological mediation. Material culture is the cultural activity of things. Human beings engage things in many ways, not only by fi nding, making, using, exchanging, consuming, and destroying them, but also by thinking about them, interacting with them, and ritually attending to them in religious ways. In recent research on religion and material culture, an earlier divi-sion between spirit and matter, soul and body, has been rejected. Research has been redirected by interests in embodied religion, with attention to the senses, gender, sexuality, life, and death, as embodied religion inter-sects with material religion, the solidity, opacity, animation, biographies, and social lives of material objects.The study of religion and material culture might be defi ned against the background of a religious materialism, going back to the German philoso-pher Ludwig Feuerbach, who argued that human consciousness is not an independent spiritual essence, aloof from the material world of objects. Against any idealist rendering of humanity, Feuerbach argued that human beings were constituted by their reciprocal engagements with material
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79 6 CultureIn the study of religion, material culture refers to the stuff of religion, the bodies, objects, and places of religious life that are animated through practices of sensory engagement, economic exchange, and technological mediation. Material culture is the cultural activity of things. Human beings engage things in many ways, not only by fi nding, making, using, exchanging, consuming, and destroying them, but also by thinking about them, interacting with them, and ritually attending to them in religious ways. In recent research on religion and material culture, an earlier divi-sion between spirit and matter, soul and body, has been rejected. Research has been redirected by interests in embodied religion, with attention to the senses, gender, sexuality, life, and death, as embodied religion inter-sects with material religion, the solidity, opacity, animation, biographies, and social lives of material objects.The study of religion and material culture might be defi ned against the background of a religious materialism, going back to the German philoso-pher Ludwig Feuerbach, who argued that human consciousness is not an independent spiritual essence, aloof from the material world of objects. Against any idealist rendering of humanity, Feuerbach argued that human beings were constituted by their reciprocal engagements with material
© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Introduction: Material Dynamics 1
  5. Part I: Categories
  6. Introduction 19
  7. 1. Animism 23
  8. 2. Sacred 30
  9. 3. Space 36
  10. 4. Time 47
  11. 5. Incongruity 58
  12. Part II: Formations
  13. Introduction 75
  14. 6. Culture 79
  15. 7. Economy 89
  16. 8. Colonialism 104
  17. 9. Imperialism 116
  18. 10. Apartheid 124
  19. Part III: Circulations
  20. Introduction 135
  21. 11. Shamans 139
  22. 12. Mobility 152
  23. 13. Popular 166
  24. 14. Touching 179
  25. 15. Oceans 195
  26. Conclusion: Dynamic Materiality 206
  27. Notes 211
  28. Index 243
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Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Introduction: Material Dynamics 1
  5. Part I: Categories
  6. Introduction 19
  7. 1. Animism 23
  8. 2. Sacred 30
  9. 3. Space 36
  10. 4. Time 47
  11. 5. Incongruity 58
  12. Part II: Formations
  13. Introduction 75
  14. 6. Culture 79
  15. 7. Economy 89
  16. 8. Colonialism 104
  17. 9. Imperialism 116
  18. 10. Apartheid 124
  19. Part III: Circulations
  20. Introduction 135
  21. 11. Shamans 139
  22. 12. Mobility 152
  23. 13. Popular 166
  24. 14. Touching 179
  25. 15. Oceans 195
  26. Conclusion: Dynamic Materiality 206
  27. Notes 211
  28. Index 243
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